Thursday, December 5, 2013

Those Places Thursday: Botpalad, Home of Moritz Farkas & Family

Thanks to the Family History Center microfilm 642919, which contains records for Fehergyarmat, Hungary, last night I confirmed that my great-grandpa Moritz Farkas (1857-1936) was born on July 3, 1857 in Botpalad, Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg, Hungary. The record-keeper often left the initial number off the year, as shown below.

At left, a closeup of the area around Botpalad. In 19th century records, Botpalad was abbreviated "B.palad."

Moritz's father was Ferencz Farkas and his mother was Sara (Hermina) Gross, as shown in the excerpt below. Way over to the right on the photo is the notation "B.palad." Bingo!

Botpalad has a statue of Kossuth Lajos (left), one of the heroes of the Hungarian independence movement.

And Moritz's children were active in the Kossuth Association in New York City, as I've written in earlier posts.

2 comments:

Absolutely hooray! Eventually Family Search will digitize all films and fiche and we'll be able to sit at the keyboard and locate ancestors and clues without cranking through films. Meanwhile, I have to return to the microfilm after the holidays because I KNOW there are more family records on it!

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